Regarding Hong Kong and Macao, the following statements are correct: (a) The pillar industries of Hong Kong and Macao are gambling and tourism. B) as shown above.

Analysis of test questions: Hong Kong is located in the east of the Pearl River Estuary and south of Shenzhen, and returned to the motherland in July 1997, with foreign trade as its economic pillar; Macao is located in the southwest of the Pearl River Estuary and south of Zhuhai City.1On February 20th, 1999, Macao returned to the motherland, with gambling and tourism as its economic pillars. The picture shows Bauhinia as the regional flag of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The mode of economic cooperation between Hong Kong, Macao and the Pearl River Delta is "store before factory"; Hong Kong has developed foreign trade and entrepot trade, and is known as a "shopper's paradise". So choose option d in this question.

Comments: Hong Kong and Macao are located on the east and west sides of the Pearl River Estuary, Hong Kong is located on the east side of the Pearl River Estuary, and Shenzhen is connected to the north; Macao is located in the southwest of the Pearl River Estuary, with Zhuhai in the north. In order to overcome a series of constraints such as large population, mountainous areas, few plains and limited land available for urban development, Hong Kong has made use of its advantages of abundant funds and advanced technology to expand its living space through "going to heaven" and "going to sea". Hong Kong is poor in mineral resources and its economy is based on international trade. The favorable condition for Hong Kong's economic development is its natural harbor. Hong Kong is one of the commercial ports with the largest number of import and export vessels in the world. Hong Kong's economy is dominated by processing, finance, real estate and tourism. The main economic pillars of Macao are: gambling, tourism, processing industry and construction industry. And the proportion of gambling has declined in recent years; Taiwan Province's economy is dominated by processing and manufacturing and tourism. Macao's return time is 1 99965438+February 20th, and Hong Kong's return time is1July 9971.